Lifetime Achievement Awards

2012 Recipients: Harry Belafonte, Robert Johnson, Highlander Center

Past Recipients (1995-2012)

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2012: Robert Johnson, Harry Belafonte, The Highlander Center

2011: Jimmy Rodgers, Joan Baez, Les Blank

2010: Elizabeth Cotten, Bob Dylan, National Council for Traditional Arts

2009: Phil Ochs, Guy & Candie Carawan, Old Town School of Folk Music           

2008: Mavis Staples, Tommy Jarrell, Rounder Records

2007: Earl Scruggs, Dave Van Ronk, Manny Greenhill

2006: Tom Paxton, Clifton Chenier, Kenneth Goldstein

2005: Odetta, Stan Rogers, The Newport Folk Festival

2004: New Lost City Ramblers, Mississippi John Hurt, Bess Lomax Hawes

2003: Ralph Stanley, Reverend Gary Davis, SingOut!

2002: Hazel Dickens, Bill Monroe, Harold Leventhal

2001: Lydia Mendoza, Paul Robeson, Ralph Rinzler, Smithsonian Folklife Festival

2000: Doc Watson, Dewey Balfa, Edith Fowke

1999: Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, The Carter Family, Anne and Frank Warner

1998: Jean Ritchie, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, American Folklife

1997: Bruce “Utah” Phillips, Chris Strachwitz, Arhoolie Records

1996: Woody Guthrie, Moe Asch/Folkways Records

1995: Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax